Lakshmi reportedly started seeing Dell while she and Forstmann's relationship was on ice. When she took a paternity test, found out the child was in fact Dell's and decided to tell him, Forstmann felt "heartbroken."

Forstmann was very bitter about “losing” the baby to Dell—Cohen describes him as “heartbroken” over the whole thing, and he could be sensitive about the topic. At one point in Cohen’s interviews, a fashion-designer acquaintance approached their table at a restaurant, casually asking Forstmann, “Teddy, how’s your baby?” Forstmann, who icily replied “just fine” to her at the time, later flew into a profane rage. “My baby? She knows very well it’s not my baby. The b*tch! The f*cking b*tch! The g*dd*mn b*tch!”

Forstmann died in 2011 of brain cancer. He was 71 and had two adopted sons.